Server Transfer?

[Crovax]

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I was not aware that if a server was locked it would become unlocked at a later time.

But I am aware that people have paid between 30-80 dollars for the game. And then will be paying between 10-15 dollars a month. It's not exactly like this game is free. So SE will be making plenty of money from the people playing who want to do transfers because they got separated .

I think one free server transfer would be more fair. But implementing a system that separates people from each other than a week or two later charging them to transfer servers to be back together. That's greedy.

[Jaeral]

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Weren't there rumors they might plan this anyway for people from Open Beta?
I can relate to your point, Crovax, it's definately not a nice move from them.
SE did announce in their statements that Character Generation Locking was temporarely tho.
The question would rather be: Why did you create a character on any random world instead of the one that you and your friends agreed on and complain now that you don't get to transfer it for free? Shouldn't you have instead informed yourself why you can't and when you can create a character there again?
It's like ordering a cone of vanilla ice and complaining afterwards you didn't get chocolate.
It's not SE's task to do the research and thinking for you.

[Crovax]

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Where was that announced at? Because I did not see that message. If it was posted on the forums somewhere that is great for the people on the forums but not so much for the people not there. Especially since all my friends started playing during the open beta so I doubt they visited the website/forums at all. When a message says, "Character creation is closed for this server" They likely took it for what it said (The same way I did).

Your analogy is completely wrong. We are not complaining that we are on separate servers. We are complaining that they have the ability to transfer servers and we paid between 30-80 dollars and will be paying 10-15 dollars a month and they want to charge us money to transfer servers when it is the system they implemented that caused most people to be separated from their friends/family in the first place.

[Jaeral]

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Like Dremic pointed out(even tho his words could have been more carefully picked ), it was announced on their twitter which was generally the source they would post information to first. On FFXIV.com there's even a button on the upper left for it and a live twitter feed with the newest information. So your friends would only have to had visited ffxiv.com.

So you are complaining that server transfers cost money at all? Or are you complaining that you have to pay in this special case which some believe is your own fault to begin with?

@Zynol: Yes i know what you mean. My friends and me had the same issue about joining Sargatanas but we communicated to each other and they will make new characters as soon as possible and/or transfer.

[Crovax]

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I would agree with you if the server notice said, "Check our twitter, or google what is happening". But it didn't. I don't use twitter. Unless it told me to I wouldn't have gone there. I didn't expect the game to lie to me so when it said the server's character creation was closed I didn't think, "They might be lying perhaps I should google it, and look it up on their twitter".

The fact that we are paying between 30-80 dollars and then 10-15 a month for a game and then they are going to charge us more money for a service we would only need because of the system they implemented.

[Jaeral]

@ Crovax: Maybe that's just me and my inquisitive personality but when something is not working like intended(and i'd count locked servers into that) the first question that pops up for me is usually: Why?
Therefore i'd check the official sources and/or create a character on another server but with knowing the risk i might have to delete it at some point
On another note: Had a talk about this subject with a friend of mine on Skype and i'll cut myself outta the conversation here

[Crovax]

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If this was an Indie game I might do that. But from an AAA Title if they say the servers character creation is locked-I would believe them. Now if they said it is Temporarily locked THEN I would have gone to their website/forums to figure out for how long these waits are.

But I definitely would not have told my friends, "Don't play at all until you can join me". The disdain comes from the fact that they have the ability to remedy this but instead of doing that they are going to ask for money to do it. Even though we are already paid them and will be continuing to pay them.

Will this stop me from playing? Probably not. But it is clearly a greedy move on their part.

[Tinks]

Where was that announced at? Because I did not see that message. If it was posted on the forums somewhere that is great for the people on the forums but not so much for the people not there. Especially since all my friends started playing during the open beta so I doubt they visited the website/forums at all....

If you didn't visit the website or forums during beta, then you did it wrong. Even though its an open beta, the point is to find and report bugs. If you weren't doing that, then you shouldn't have been playing anyway. d(^_^)

[Crovax]

If you didn't visit the website or forums during beta, then you did it wrong. Even though its an open beta, the point is to find and report bugs. If you weren't doing that, then you shouldn't have been playing anyway. d(^_^)

I thought the last phase of beta (Normally the one that is open) is a stress test? And it was what, 3 days long? Not exactly the phase to be looking for bugs. Not saying people shouldn't have looked for bugs just that wasn't the point of that phase of the beta.

[Dremic]

I thought the last phase of beta (Normally the one that is open) is a stress test? And it was what, 3 days long? Not exactly the phase to be looking for bugs. Not saying people shouldn't have looked for bugs just that wasn't the point of that phase of the beta.

Every beta is always to find bugs... Didn't you hear about error 90000 and 3102? Both fixed because of phase 4